Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1887-02-25
WHAT TIE PAPERS SAY
About People Whose Names Are Before
tho Public.

About People Whose Names Are Before
tho Public.
Paul Tilton, son of Theodore Tilton, is
making reputation as an artist in Rome.
Gen. Sherman is said to have fear that he
will be the next of the war heroes to die.
NJ. Pasteur is to retire from active practice
soon to avoid paralysis, with which he is
threatened
Muhkacsy is to return to America next
summer for the purpose of painting Niagara
Falls
Ex-Governor Hoadly, looking happy and
well, tells New York reporter that private
life is better than any public Office.
Queen Victoria's New Years gifts to the
poor of Windsor included thousand prime
joints of beef and hundred tons OF coal.
Bismarck is said to have drunk nine
glasses of cold brandy and water in making
lis war speech before the German re1chstag.
The Baroness Rothschild in Paris has an
nounccd coming series of Sunday afternoon
dances for young girls.
Governor Ireland of Texas, declares in a
published letter that the needs of starving
people in that state have not been exag-
gerated
The assertion is repeated upon apparently
good authority that Col. John Hay is the
author of the "Breadwinners," although he
recently denied it.
Mrs. Thu Der states that there are eighty
singers in the National opera chorus, Of which
siXty-two are Americans and but eighteen
foreigners of all nationalties.
Ex-Governor Curtin had an operation per
formed on his right eye, that has been sight
less for more than twenty years, by which
the sight has been entirely restored.
William Black, the novelist, has obtained
in London a verdict of e100 damages against
Bow Bells for libelous assertions respecting
his early life and rarsimonious habits.
1t is said that James Brown Potter has be-
come suddenly rich by the rise of coffee. He
is reported to have made $4,000 in one day
and 1000 the day following.
The Marquis de Mores, the millionaire COW
boy of Montana, has leased a house in New
York for four months, paying S24, 900 for
rent Of house and furniture.
John Lawrence Sullivan, the hitter, is
going to make book bearing his name as
author. A contract binding him to his work
is reposng snugly i'll drawer at one of the
publishing houses in New York city.
The queen of Greece takes her airings in a
carriage for which she paid $1,000. 1t was
built for the triumphal entry of the Comte dc
Chambord into Paris, which never took
place, owing to circumstances over which the
comte had no control.
Mrs. Mackay paid $40 for box at the
representation of ''La Patrien for the benefit
of the flood sufferers, and went from London
to Paris to attend it, When she got there her
doctor prohibited her wearing low cut dress,
so she ordered and had completed in twenty
four hours splendid directory costume of
blue velvet and satin ard lace
Paymaster Milton B. Cushing, retired Of
ficer of the navy, who died recently, was an
older brother of the famous Commander
William B. Cushing, whose destruction of
the Confederate ram Albemarle was one of
the most daring acts of the war There were
four brothers, all of whom are now dead and
mourned for by their aged mother, who still
lives, at the age Of 70, with her daughter in
Missouri
Queen Victoria is reported to be breaking
very rapidly and to be conscious that she can
not live very many years longer. There is a
England that the queen may not live till the
year is completed. The appearance of old
age is most clearly marked in her Jubilee por-
trait, which has just been completed and
placed in the gallery leading to her private
apartments at Windsor.
An Auburn lady tells this about Roscoe
Conkling: Zone day when Roscoe was visit
ing my fathers house the horse and sulky
were brought up to the door, and my father
was just getting ready to start out for a ride
among his patients. Young Roscoe thought he
would get some life out of the old horse, took
pin and stuck it i'll his launches when the
usually staid animal suddenly gave a kick
and hit Roscoe q severe blow on the fore
head cutting cash that to this day leaves q
scar ON the brow. And this is why the ex-
senator permits little curl to drop overt e. y
Mr.. Parnelfs power, says a London jour-
nal, is almost wholly due to his force of re-
straint. He has absolute control over his
temper and "never lets himself 60" The
leader of race famed for jovial wit, pas
sionate oratory, reckless abandon and more
than regal generosity, he never made joke
in his life, is a cold, unimpassioned calcula-
tor, who holds himself in reserve even with
his intimates, and whose oratory has never
been relieved by a single burst of passionate
fervor. He is the mystery man of modern
politics.
A complete series of the drawings of
Turner will be exhibited at the London
National academy this year.
A game called IS ossip," and played with
old carte de visite photographs of persons,
has become very popular.
James Lick's monument in San Francisco
contains no inscription but his name and age
and the line, "a native of Pennsylvania.
NJ. NJ. Brennan, of Eufaula, Ala, has I'LL
dertaken the task of rearing monument
over the grave of Father Ryan, the poet
priest, at Mobile.
In Montana the high hat nuisance at
theatres promises to be short lived. The
crowd yells, "Shoot the hatl" and the show
cannot go on until it is taken off.
An equestrian statue of George Washing
ton is to be erected this year in Philadelphia